Noticias y recursos sobre Databases
To help customers integrate and maximize the value of Big Data, Oracle announced the Oracle Big Data Appliance today at Oracle OpenWorld 2011. Offering customers an end-to-end solution for Big Data, the Oracle Big Data Appliance, in conjunction with Oracle Exadata Database Machine and the new Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine, delivers everything customers need to acquire, organize, analyze and maximize the value of Big Data within their enterprise.
Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire RightNow Technologies, a leading provider of cloud-based customer service, for $43.00 per share or approximately $1.5 billion net of RightNow's cash and debt. RightNow's Customer Service Cloud helps organizations deliver exceptional customer experiences across call centers, the web and social networks.
Together, Oracle and RightNow can enable a superior customer experience at every contact and across every channel..
Pentaho, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) and data integration software, today reaffirmed its commitment to support Big Data with a major expansion of native Big Data sources, including the latest Hadoop distributions, NoSQL sources, as well as native support for many analytic databases and traditional OLTP databases. Pentaho’s native connection to Big Data platforms makes it easier and faster than ever to analyze the enormous data volumes generated by today’s organizations.
Pentaho Offers Native Support for More Big Data Platforms Than any Other BI Vendor
Informatica Corporation, the world’s number one independent leader in data integration software, today introduced the Informatica Cloud administration application for iPhone, now available on the App Store.at no cost. In addition to the iPhone, the mobile application also runs on the iPad and iPod touch and enables users to remotely monitor and administer cloud integration jobs and take action from any place, at any time. The Informatica Cloud administration application is also available through a link on the Informatica Marketplace to existing Informatica Cloud customers.
Data volumes are surging by the exabyte each day, and the time has come for more companies to start making sense of those complex clickstreams of big data, according to Teradata Corporation, the world’s leading analytic data solutions company focused on integrated data warehousing, big data analytics, and business applications. In new videos, Scott Gnau, president of Teradata Labs, and Mayank Bawa, vice president of development, Teradata Aster, explain the compelling business value of big data – and how companies can – starting immediately – plan and deploy a big data analytics environment to start creating richer, detailed insight.
In an effort to improve the development of database-centric Web 2.0 applications and reports, Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle Application Express Release 4.1.
Extending Oracle’s smart grid capabilities, Oracle Utilities Network Management System 1.11 offers new modeling and analysis features to improve distribution-grid management for electric utilities.
IBM today is marking the 100th anniversary of its founding on June 16, 1911. To celebrate the milestone, the company is releasing a book, "Making the World Work Better: The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company," debuting a new film, "Wild Ducks," and ringing the Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
Commits $100 Million to Massive Scale Analytics Research
As companies seek to gain real-time insight from diverse types of data, IBM today unveiled new software and services to help clients more effectively gain competitive insight, optimize infrastructure and better manage resources to address Internet-scale data. For the first time, organizations can integrate and analyze tens-of-petabytes of data in its native format and gain critical intelligence in sub-second response times.
To further ease and improve Oracle Database developer productivity, Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle SQL Developer 3.0.
Based on customer feedback, this new release focuses on ease of migration, improving development and database administrator (DBA) tasks, and introduces support for Oracle Data Mining and Oracle Spatial.
A free graphical tool for database development, Oracle SQL Developer Release 3.0 is downloadable today from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN).
